Chapter 7 The weather is dry, beware of mountain fires
The weather continued to be dry, the mountains and rivers of Chengxi became thinner, the water level in the well fell, and the village chief and the clan elders sighed all day long.
The downstream village is composed of three surnames, the most populous is the surname Tian, the village chief is also surnamed Tian, followed by the surname Qian, and the smallest number is the Yuan family.
Lao Yuantou is the only one in this room and a sister who has been married for many years, and two cousins, and there are only three children in each cousin's family, as well as a married daughter.
Cuihua is even more strictly forbidden to wrap up the troublemakers, and the clothes are dirty and not washed, and no matter how naughty they are, let them make mud dolls and not give them a bath.
During this time, a few boys were obsessed with catching bamboo rats in the bamboo forest, and they also learned to roast rat meat to eat, and they didn't go to the river much anymore.
After all, no matter how fun the game is, it can't compare to the smell of meat, and they also call friends and work together with a group of wild boys. Every day when she goes out, Cuihua repeatedly emphasizes that she should pay attention to Mars when she goes out for barbecue in the wild.
At the age of the wind in the ears, the stick does not hit the flesh and does not know the pain!
On this day, as soon as Cuihua finished pulling the grass in the vegetable garden, she saw thick smoke billowing in the direction of Xiaoqingshan, and the fire was soaring into the sky.
Drop the hoe, hurry to Xiaoqingshan, the people in the village saw a lot, all hurriedly ran over, what are you afraid of, the mountains and forests that have been dry for a year, when you encounter fire, there is still a serious shortage of water, how is this good?
Cuihua became more and more frightened, and when she ran to the entrance of the village, she saw a group of children running out screaming, and her two troublemakers ran in front.
"Mother, mother, we all ran out, it was Tian Ergou who kicked our fire!" Big head sued while running.
A group of children gossiped and said: It turned out that today they more than ten monkey cubs caught five bamboo rats, and they were roasting happily, and the grandson of the village chief's cousin, the two dogs who were 5 years older than them, smelled the fragrance and asked the little ones to make offerings.
After owning a whole mouse, they were not satisfied, and when they left, they kicked their fire, and the children didn't care, but unexpectedly, the spark caused dry leaves, and the fire spread too quickly, and this one was out of control.
The villagers who came after him beat their chests and feet, and now the calf is over! No one can resist this burning method! Individuals first carry their babies home.
The two ends were beaten so that their butts bloomed, and this time my mother really put in her strength!
"Have I explained to you every day, pay attention to Mars! Yes? Is the left ear in and the right ear out! ”
"Look at you all these days, I'm crazy about it, I'm stabbing Lou Zi every day, don't you think I'm beating me lightly!"
"Ah, don't fight, mother, it really hurts! The ass is swollen! ”
"Mother, we know it's wrong, we don't dare anymore, woo, it hurts!"
The fire burned for two days and one night, and Daqingshan and Xiaoqingshan were extinguished! Cuihua's mother's house was separated by a stone mountain to survive.
The two cubs after being beaten drooped their heads, and this time the trouble was a bit big. My mother hasn't given a good face for a few days, and she has been spinning around her yard for a few days with her tail between her legs.
Three days later, the village chief convened a villagers' meeting to deal with the matter as follows: Wang Ergouzi is the main culprit, and after beating the ten boards and buttocks, he was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days without food, and the rest of the barbecue rat dolls were punished to kneel for one day without food!
What can I do? The biggest doll is no more than 10 years old! The village chief is a few years old, and there will be a big cold in this year of great drought, and everyone will waste their strength in the winter firewood.
Organize the villagers to clean up two mountains and forests, clean up the carcasses of more than 100 wild boars, wild boars with charred fur, and carry them back to the village.
Cuihua was worried about half a piece of wild boar, and it was too hot to stay. In the end, it was decided to separate the fat and lean meat, the lean meat was salted, simply seasoned and dried with charcoal fire, made into dried meat, the fat meat was boiled into lard, put a little salt to resist, all the bones were stewed, and the whole family gnawed meat and bones all day.
After paying the autumn tax, sure enough, there were less than 500 catties of millet left at home, and the family relied on a few chickens to lay eggs for salt. Old Yuan Tou is a carpenter, the second child studied for half a year, he was too stupid, and finally asked to strike iron, this life depends on strength more, than carpenters to learn.
So the old Yuan Tou continued to work for the villagers to make furniture, and Yuan Lao Er went back to the town to make iron.
There is still a season of wheat to be planted in the southwest, but this year's rice fields have dried up and cracked, and nothing can be planted.
Father Hu came to Yuan's house this day, carrying a bag of wild things, pheasants and rabbits, he said that because of the fire in the two green mountains, the animals fled frantically to the Da'e Mountain where their family lived, and there were many prey.
It doesn't rain all day, so this year's grain prices are 30% more expensive than in previous years, and I also came to inform my daughter's family to make plans early. I didn't have time to eat, so I put down my things and Daddy Hu was about to go home, and Cuihua smuggled a bamboo basket of longan persimmons from the cabinet for Daddy to take back.
"Dad, this is the wild persimmon I picked up on the mountain, I don't know what the reason is, there are no seeds, you bring it back to my mother and my nephews and nieces, how much is it a heart."
"You don't have much grain in your house, huh? Can I eat it? ”
While talking, he also stuffed a small silver ingot with Cuihua, looking like it was five taels.
"Don't push me, Lao Tzu's own money is spent on whoever he wants! It's not a way for the price of this grain to rise so much, you take it and buy more grain and save it, don't starve my two grandchildren! ”
The old man is very worried about this year's winter, his daughter, the man is not there, the baby is still so young, and the life is sad!
It seems that we still have to find a way to add more food to the family, and the food in the space can only be mixed in small quantities at ordinary times, and there must be food that can cross the road.
It was not very convenient for ancient women to go out to make money, and it was easy to attract attention to what way to make money suddenly.
When the two met again in the space, Heiwa also agreed with her point of view, we have no shortage of food, gold and silver, what we want is how to meet the current national conditions.
Looking at the white velvet cotton, the winter clothes are also worrying, the village chief nagged all day long that this winter will be cold, and the winter clothes must be prepared in advance, these can only rely on Cuihua's imagination, and the black baby whose wound is completely healed has to be pulled out again with the team.